Subproject (SP) 9

Project institute: Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e. V. Müncheberg, Department of Land Use Systems and Landscape Ecology

Title: Integrated crop management for Precision Farming as the central layer of the information driven crop production

Short title: Integrated crop management

Goals of the subproject: Development of basic principles and methods which allow the determination of site-specific farming for heterogeneous crop stands as an associated sequence of procedures.

Position of the subproject within the joint project: This subproject is the integration layer for plant cultivation of the joint project. The practical experiments are organised. The subproject belongs to the project at area integrative management of crop stands.


Within the subproject integrated crop management basic principles and methods will be developed, which allow the determination of site-specific farming for heterogeneous crop stands as an associated sequence of procedures.

Prerequisites for proper site-specific plant production on a field are a complex observation of the previous tasks, requirements in the future, potentials for this area and ecological sensibilities.

Adequate experiments of arable fields allow even more the deduction of production functions. These production functions are fundamentals for decision making of single tasks on parts of a field.

Corresponding methods, protocols and analysing routines shall be developed in this subproject for planning, installation, execution and analysing of such experiments.

On both farms, one located in Lower-Saxony, one in Saxony-Anhalt, first field trials in the year 2005 were carried out for site-specific nitrogen application and site-specific sowing.

5th April 2005